Hello,
I live in the south of France with my three Hermanns who will all turn two this summer. They have both indoor and outdoor enclosures with lots of space and natural sunlight and UV-lamp if needed. They eat well and seem happy and healthy.
However, one of them is very different from the other two. He's from a different breeder than the other two and is also a lot bigger than the other two (picture of size for comparison). I think he grew up maybe overeating because I saw how much the breeder fed her babies. But he seems happy and healthy, is curious, never aggressive, and eats. My only concern about him is that he has like 20 times the energy of the other two. The others slowly stroll around, sniffing everything and curiously checking out everything, chilling and resting. But he's everywhere all the time. He never stops walking and he walks extremely fast. Nothing can really catch his attention and he just keeps moving and moving and moving. He's not doing crazy things like climbing and falling down. But he just never stops to catch his breath. So I bought him a hamster wheel and he absolutely loves it. He walks somewhere between 4 to 7 hours a day in that wheel. I mean, it's great that he loves it so much but his hyperactivity worries me a little bit because the other two are not like this at all.
So my question is: Is there something wrong with him? Maybe because of the way he was bred? Or is this just his personality?
I live in the south of France with my three Hermanns who will all turn two this summer. They have both indoor and outdoor enclosures with lots of space and natural sunlight and UV-lamp if needed. They eat well and seem happy and healthy.
However, one of them is very different from the other two. He's from a different breeder than the other two and is also a lot bigger than the other two (picture of size for comparison). I think he grew up maybe overeating because I saw how much the breeder fed her babies. But he seems happy and healthy, is curious, never aggressive, and eats. My only concern about him is that he has like 20 times the energy of the other two. The others slowly stroll around, sniffing everything and curiously checking out everything, chilling and resting. But he's everywhere all the time. He never stops walking and he walks extremely fast. Nothing can really catch his attention and he just keeps moving and moving and moving. He's not doing crazy things like climbing and falling down. But he just never stops to catch his breath. So I bought him a hamster wheel and he absolutely loves it. He walks somewhere between 4 to 7 hours a day in that wheel. I mean, it's great that he loves it so much but his hyperactivity worries me a little bit because the other two are not like this at all.
So my question is: Is there something wrong with him? Maybe because of the way he was bred? Or is this just his personality?